A package does not install in Windows, but it should

[Daniel Díaz Casanueva]

Does that apply to "Aux.hs" files?


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>wrote:

> Windows doesn't allow files called "Aux" (it's a vestige of the DOS days).
>
> G
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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Daniel Díaz Casanueva <
> dhelta.diaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> Firstly, my apologies if this is not the right place to report this
>> problem, but my guess is that is a cabal related problem.
>>
>> I wrote a package and is now uploaded in Hackage [1]. I do not have any
>> problems installing it (cabal install) in my usual computer (debian). I
>> tried other computer running windows, and it does not build reporting the
>> following error:
>>
>> hatex-guide-1.0.1.3 failed while unpacking the package. The exception was:
>> user error (Invalid file name in tar archive:
>> "hatex-guide-1.0.1.3\\Text\\LaTeX\\Guide\\Aux.hs")
>>
>> I am using a custom script and this module here (Text.LaTeX.Guide.Aux) is
>> generated by the Setup.hs code.
>>
>> Suspecting that it may fail in other computers as well, I have tried to
>> install it in yet another maching (ubuntu). It installed just fine.
>>
>> Therefore, I am seeing different behaviors depending on the system, when
>> the library really does not use any platform specific feature. It should be
>> portable if I am not missing anything. Anyway, note that the error is
>> "while unpacking the package". Mysterious to me.
>>
>> I would gladly look through the Cabal code and look in which step is the
>> error thrown, but I am not familiarized with the code of the library and it
>> may be a big task for such a simple (in appearance) error. However, I can
>> tell that I didn't try (yet).
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel Díaz.
>>
>> --
>>
>> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hatex-guide
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